The Paranormal Database

Horse Headed Beast

Location: Loch Assynt - Waters of the Loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1850s
Further Comments: Seen twice during the 1850s by the same witness, the man claimed the creature had a horse's head.

Baritone

Location: Loch Avon (aka Loch A'an) - Little stream leading to the loch, above and to the right of the Shelton Stone
Type: Other
Date / Time: Circa 1900(?), after midday
Further Comments: Several times around this area, a witness visiting the area to sketch, would hear the clear notes of a baritone. The voice, loud and clear, sounded no further than ten feet (three metres) away, although the witness could never find the source.

Fantastic Horse

Location: Loch Borralan - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This loch monster will disguise itself as a radiant white horse, enabling it to walk up to victims before pulling them into the loch's murky waters.

Water Kelpie

Location: Loch Borrolan - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: When two fishermen vanished along the banks of the loch, the only items a search party could find were a brace of fish, two fishing rods, and large hoof prints in the sand which came from and disappeared back into the loch.

Monster

Location: Loch Canisp - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The loch is said to be home of an unidentified water beast.

Horse Man

Location: Loch Chuaich (aka Loch Quoich) - General area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A water horse that lived in the loch would often be seen floating around on its side. On one occasion the creature took the form of a man and tried to enter a former soldier's home. Bullets did not harm the water horse, but a silver coin fired from the gun drove the creature away.

Vanishing Car

Location: Loch Cluanie - A87 running alongside the loch
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1940s
Further Comments: This car would be seen from a distance, vanishing as it moved closer to the witness.

Kelpie

Location: Loch Coruisk - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This lake monster would take the form of a beautiful horse which would try to drown anyone who tried to mount it.

White Horse

Location: Loch Dornoch - Straight piece of road lined with trees on both sides
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2001
Further Comments: Witness Mr Morrison stopped his car suddenly when he encountered a white horse ridden by a Victorian man in the middle of the road. Both entities vanished quickly into the distance.

The Seal People

Location: Loch Duich - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area is home to a colony of seal people - sea creature while in the water, human when they climb out... Mermaids have also been reported, as have sea serpents.

Loch Eil, Scotland.

Water Creature

Location: Loch Eil - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This loch is home to another one of Scotland's lake monsters, though there appears to be only one recording sighting. This described a black worm-like head with a three foot (ninety centimetre) neck which quickly vanished beneath the surface of the water.

Hanging Butler

Location: Loch Ericht region - Benaldar Cottage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A small hut designed as a mountaineer's rest, this cottage is reportedly haunted by a manservant who could stand life no more.

Fictious illustration from Detective Weekly of a creature emerging from a loch.

Long Necked Monster

Location: Loch Feith an Leothaid - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1930s
Further Comments: A creature with a neck between four and five feet high popped up next to a man rowing his boat across this loch.

My Little Water Pony

Location: Loch Garget Beag - Banks of the Loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Summer 1938
Further Comments: While walking with a friend and carrying a heavy bag of venison, Mary Falconer of Achlyness spotted thirteen ponies which resembled her neighbours. As she approached one, intending to borrow it to carry her bag, Falconer noticed that one horse's mane contained strands of water weed. The string of ponies then bolted into the loch, vanishing beneath the water.

Water Horse

Location: Loch Garten - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Another body of water thought to be home to one of these formally unidentified creatures, this loch monster was described as a cross between a horse and a black bull which possessed incredible strength.

Water Horse House

Location: Loch Garve - Underwater
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This freshwater monster had a house built for him and his mortal bride - the general area of the property is known as the water there never freezes because of the home's open fire!

Kelpie

Location: Loch Glass (was known as Loch Glaish) - Waters
Type: Other
Date / Time: 1730
Further Comments: This loch was named as another home for those pesky water horses.

Black Creature

Location: Loch Hourn - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1934
Further Comments: Four witnesses observed a ninety-six foot (twenty-nine metre) long black beast swimming in the loch, its body forming humps as it moved.

Loch Linnhe, Scotland.

Horned Creature

Location: Loch Linnhe - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1940s-1960s
Further Comments: During the 1940s a witness said that she had seen a long necked creature swimming in the loch. The creature had a long neck, dark brown skin, small black eyes and stubby rounded horns. There were further sightings of a humped creature in the 1950s and 1960s. It is worth noting that Loch Linnhe is connected directly to the sea, so it is always possible that something a little more prosaic entered the loch (although a dolphin does not readily match the long necked entity description of the 1940s...).

Large Cat

Location: Loch Lochy - A82
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 05 April 2016
Further Comments: A driver and passenger spotted a puma cross the road and jump into hedgerow as they travelled south.

Water Beast

Location: Loch Lochy - Corriegour Lodge Hotel, Fort William
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: September 1996
Further Comments: Seen by staff and residents of the hotel, this three-humped creature swam on the surface of the loch. Reports of a monster here date back to 1930 and before.

Loch Lurgainn in the Highlands of Scotland.

Water Horse

Location: Loch Lurgainn - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This loch is another traditional haunt of the mythical water horse.

Wish Tree

Location: Loch Maree - Oak tree on St Maol Rubha (aka St Maree)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Famously visited by Queen Victoria in 1877, the bark of the wishing tree is covered in coins and other pieces of metal which have been hammered in. The tree is now dead, apparently caused by copper poisoning. The removal of any of the metal was said to result in misfortune.

Loch Maree in Scotland.

Upside Down Boat

Location: Loch Maree - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 25 August (ritual)
Further Comments: This creature possessed a hump very similar to that of a rowing boat turned upside down. A local man gained some notoriety when he tried (unsuccessfully) to drain the loch while searching for the beast. Until around the 1750s, bulls were sacrificed on 25 August to appease the water monster. The water of the loch was said to cure 'lunacy', but nothing could ever be taken from the area in case the illness returned.

Horse

Location: Loch Meiklie - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This loch has been named as another traditional haunt of water horses.